We had a great week talking about RESPONSIBILITY! The children shared with each other the responsibilities they have at home. Some children are responsible for making their bed, remembering to brush their teeth, feeding the animals, cleaning their room, picking up toys, taking care of younger siblings and helping Mom and Dad with supper. The children are proud to be so helpful and we celebrated their attempts. We also recognized that sometimes we forget and that's okay as long as we continue to try. RESPONSIBILITY was a big word for us so we used some books to help us understand!! Below are the books we read this week to help us learn about responsibility. We visited Mrs.Usiner at the custodian's room to see what her responsibilities are in the school to help keep it clean. We got to see the chariot washer, the big floor cleaners and all the supplies. Wow there was a lot of stuff in there. I look forward to seeing what next week will bring. See you then! Have a safe weekend.

REMINDER: There is a pie sale happening at the Day Care Center from 11:30 to 2:30 on Saturday Sept. 29th. If you can donate pies for us to sell please bring them to the day care before 11:30 on Saturday. Otherwise please stop by to see what it is all about. Contact the Day Care or Miss Frieze for more details.

PAINTING PAINTING PAINTING

New Song: Numbers Rumba

Here are the words to a new song we learned this week:

Do the numbers rumba. Clap, clap clap.Do the numbers rumba. Clap, clap clap.Numbers rumba all day long (throw hands in the air)

Number 1, number 1, number one is straight but fun!Number 2, number 2, two big feet on a kangaroo!Number 3, number 3, three bananas in a banana tree!Number 4, number 4, four big gorillas, knocking on the door.Number 5, number 5, five buzzing bees in a big bee hive.

Do the numbers rumba. Clap, clap clap.Do the numbers rumba. Clap, clap clap.Numbers rumba all day long (throw hands in the air)

Show and Share- Letter A

Our first show and share was a raging success. Children brought in items from home starting with letter A, containing the letter A, and some things that just made us go AAAAAAAAAAhhh!! It was great to see the children take time to listen to one another and ask questions about items they brought. Next show and share will be letter C at the end of October (please see your activity calendar)

This month we welcomed TARA MILLS- Director of Souris Cooperative Day Care Center Inc. to read with us and spend time in our class. Many of us know who Tara is from the Day Care, some of the children did not. We had great time getting to know each other while we read THE OK BOOK.

Another week has come and gone. The children enjoyed visiting the library for story time this week and learning all about the letter A. Annie Apple makes an 'a' sound and has a special song to help us remember. We read about the ants in Max's pants then made our own letter A ants (some of us chose not to add ant legs which was fine as well). We discussed our feelings and emotions. The children and I discussed all kinds of feelings when we read "Happy and Sad, Grouchy and Glad" and "Today I Feel Silly". "If you're happy and you know it" was an obvious song for us to sing this week. Sometimes we changed up the words to suit how we were feeling. Each day we took note of how everyone was feeling and now we have a "feeling tracker" chart to reflect our findings.

There has been more and more interest about our stick bug pets so we spent some time discussing them and building our own stick bug to take home. We currently have 3 stick bugs in our classroom which need to be fed lettuce and watered every couple of days. They have grown quite a bit since our first day of school.

Have you noticed our hanging planets?? The children sure have. It seems to be at snack time when the classroom slows down that questions begin to be asked about the planets. "Why is Pluto so far away? What if the sun stopped shining? Why does Saturn have rings?" Questions like these tell me that the children are interested and ready to take on a unit about the planets. Watch for this work coming soon.

Below are the books we read this week about feelings and ABC's. Songs we continue to sing are "The Continents", "O Canada" and the Superman song. Here are the lyrics:

I may never fly like superman, flex like batman, climb like Spiderman.Inspector Gadget is no match for who I am, because I'm the best SUPERKID!

~ Week 1, here and gone ~

Welcome everyone to the wonderful 2012-2013 Nursery School year!! I thought that nobody could have been as excited as I was, but I was sure wrong. The children arrived with smiles and hugs on Monday and Tuesday, Moms and Dads too!

I am thrilled to have such full, exciting classes this year. Did you know that we added an extra class to accommodate the number of children who registered this year!?! AMAZING!!

We started the week by spending lots of time playing with one another and getting to know who we are, why we are here and what we will be doing. The Lego and dinosaurs were a huge hit in the classroom along with Pop-up Pirate and of course the housekeeping area. Everyone finished off the week by venturing out into the school for a COOL SCHOOL TOUR! We visited Mr.Williams and Mrs.Rolfe- the principals (they help all the kids in the school), we peeked in the gym (the only place in the school we are allowed to RUN), spoke with the secretaries, with with Ms.Kontzie the librarian and visited Mrs.McLeod's room to see her aquarium of fish! Also, everyone got to have a sip from the new water fountain- this was very exciting for us!!

It took us the week to get into a thorough routine, and I look forward to seeing everyone again next week when we will begin learning about Annie Apple, start a self-awareness project, welcome a guest reader and have our first official Library visit.

Have you received and reviewed your monthly activity calendar? Please let me know if you have any questions. Reminder: There are NO NURSERY SCHOOL CLASSES on Monday, September 17th. The make-up class day for this will be Friday, September 21st.

On Saturday, September 29th 2012 we will be hosting our annual pie sale at the Day Care from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. If you are able to donate 2 or more pies they would be greatly appreciated. We then sell the pies to the public and the funds are using to enhance programming at all the Day Care programs we offer including Infant, pre-school, Nursery School and School-age.Thank you for choosing Souris Cooperative Day Care Center Inc. for your child's Nursery School experience.